Chapter 385 The Mission Stele
The seemingly ordinary outer disciple residential area was also equipped with a forbidden flight formation by the insane Yang Hong.
“Sect Master~ You’re really a cheat~”
Qiu Kun struggled to get up from the ground, wiped a smear of blood from his nose, and complained softly.
“What kind of forbidden flight formation is this? You can still fly below a hundred zhang, but once you exceed a hundred zhang, the immense formation power will beat you to death.”
“Cough cough~ Senior Brother Qiu, isn’t this considered you paving the way?”
Lou Xiangyang, running over from the ground, asked with a suppressed laugh.
“Get lost. When I was building these small buildings, there was no formation. I don’t know when the Sect Master set up a formation again.”
*Bang~*
Just then, another sound of a heavy object hitting the ground came from behind them.
“Ye Peicai, you third-tier formation master, you didn’t know there was a forbidden flight formation here either?”
Lou Xiangyang looked at the person on the ground and asked in surprise.
“Cough cough~ It’s Senior Brother Lou. I really didn’t know there was a forbidden flight formation here. Junior Brother and I were responsible for building the Spirit Gathering Formation.
And it was also arranged by all of us as third-tier formation masters working together, but we really didn’t arrange a forbidden flight formation.”
“This must be the Sect Master’s doing.”
Ye Peicai also wiped his nose and coughed twice before speaking.
“Let’s walk honestly. The first phase of the outer disciple residential area that the Sect Master had arranged is not large, and all the small buildings are similar. There's no need to rush.”
Qiu Kun stood up, patted the dust off his clothes, turned around, and walked away quickly. This time, he only dared to walk along the winding bluestone path. Outside the path, although it looked like lush green grass and beautiful scenery, one could not guarantee that there wasn't hidden danger.
“Ahhhhhh~~”
The three of them hadn't walked far when they suddenly heard a scream from behind. The three turned to look and saw a junior sister who had previously assisted in building the farmland. She had tried to take a shortcut, walked into the woods, and was now trembling all over from being struck by lightning.
“Let’s save her~”
The three exchanged a look of lingering fear, turned around, and went back to save her.
…
Yang Hong, standing in the air, looked at the outer disciples, who were having all sorts of problems in the residential area, and nodded with satisfaction.
“Very good, formations that are useless in themselves can become useful when connected. Those who are responsible for construction, planting, and formation building will each handle a part. When these seemingly formation-less or simply arranged formations are connected, they will become something different. For the second phase of construction, more ideas can be tested.”
Yang Hong’s most proficient cultivation skill was formations. In the Myriad Demon Sea Domain, he had been studying the combination and fusion of formations, and had even used his fourth-tier Golden Core realm to kill a seventh-tier Integration stage demon lord with the help of formations. After returning to the Taiyuan Continent, although he was idle at home, he had been continuously learning about formations. Especially during the time he helped immortal sect cultivators with dual cultivation and tribulations, he was eager to learn. Whenever he had the chance, he would ask those great immortal sect figures for formation knowledge or request formation jade slips. Now, Yang Hong’s formation dao level had reached the peak of the sixth tier. He only needed one moment of enlightenment and a little serendipity to advance to the seventh tier. Therefore, he took this opportunity to experiment with his formation dao knowledge at Qingfeng Mountain. The results were very satisfactory.
“Formation rise!”
As the thirty outer disciples all entered the low wall, Yang Hong quickly formed hand seals and continuously cast incantations towards the outer disciple residential area. A giant earth-yellow light shield slowly rose and then gradually disappeared. A massive formation, covering three li wide and three hundred li long, was activated by Yang Hong. From now on, without an outer disciple token, even a sixth-tier Nascent Soul stage cultivator could not enter this area. Even a seventh-tier Integration stage cultivator would not be able to break through this defensive formation in a short time. And to set up this grand formation, Yang Hong only used first and second-grade spiritual plants and materials. Not a single item exceeded second grade, even the bluestone floor tiles, which could be directly condensed into third-grade materials by spells, were limited by Yang Hong to second grade. Such a formation, in the Taiyuan Continent, was not unprecedented, but it was also extremely rare. After activating the formation, Yang Hong once again landed on the square where the handyman disciples were located. Under the expectant gazes of the handyman disciples, he threw out ten crystal stele.
“This is Qingfeng Mountain Villa. You can form teams to accept missions for the goals you want to achieve in the next ten years.”
Then, he took out three more crystal stele and said.
“In addition, all disciples must complete some missions every month, and new disciples are no exception. These are daily missions, with different mission requirements based on cultivation. You can check them yourselves.”
All the handyman disciples’ eyes lit up. Missions meant rewards. Besides the essential cultivation resources such as spirit stones, pills, and magical artifacts, there was also a chance to be promoted to outer disciples, or even inner disciples. Seeing the eager gazes of the disciples, Yang Hong, as always, left directly without any explanation.
“The Sect Master just wants us to keep being lecture elders. The sect points for imparting knowledge are so low. I envy the Nascent Soul stage disciples who can leave the sect to explore the surrounding environment.”
Ke Jiemei looked at the daily mission stele with a bitter expression. The Sect Master was still trying to suppress them, the four Nascent Soul stage cultivators.
“Senior Sister Ke, I wish I could be a lecture elder, but my cultivation doesn’t allow it! Besides, there are many requirements for us to explore outside. Like not being allowed to kill people, only capture them, having to capture young beasts when encountering them, and collecting any spiritual plants not found on Qingfeng Mountain. There are too many requirements.”
Zhang Zhengyan also smiled bitterly after reading the daily missions for Nascent Soul stage cultivators. Yang Hong had put too many shackles on them, preventing them from dancing freely.
“Hehe~ The daily missions for Nascent Soul stage cultivators are the easiest. Look at the Golden Core stage, they are miserable.”
“Hmph~ What’s so miserable about it? It’s just refining pills, refining magical artifacts and talismans. Although the quality required by the Sect Master is a bit high, the quantity is small.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a Golden Core stage disciple behind him retorted indignantly.
“Senior Brother Zhang, you speak from a position of privilege. Each person needs at least nine high-grade talismans, and they must be talismans of professional grade. That is almost impossible to achieve. For me, a fourth-tier Golden Core stage cultivator and a third-tier talisman master, I can make no more than ten high-grade third-tier talismans per year. Now, it’s ten per month, which is simply impossible to complete.”
“Alas~ I am an artifact refiner. At least two high-grade magical artifacts per month is also a fantasy. I can’t even craft one high-grade magical artifact a year.”
“Cough cough~ We alchemists should be able to complete the mission of twenty high-grade pills per month.”
The last female voice attracted the angry stares of almost everyone. They had agreed to not complete the missions together and just slack off, but she had secretly met the requirements. Friendship over!
“Cough cough~ It seems the missions for lower-level disciples are simpler, and the rewards are more generous. They only need to grow some grass and flowers to complete their missions.”
Her words once again drew a sea of rolled eyes. What grass and flowers? Those were spiritual plants, with varying grades and types. If they died, points would be deducted, and points were the only way Yang Hong had announced for disciples to advance in sect status.
Ke Jiemei looked at the disciples’ complaints and suddenly felt that the four of them, the Nascent Soul stage cultivators, were much more comfortable. They just needed to teach disciples to earn points, and they could be completely idle. However, she didn’t know that her nightmare had just begun.